Create single-property indexes on a loop in cypher

Question

Is it possible to do something like this in cypher?

WITH ["John", "Jane"] AS names
FOREACH (name IN names | CREATE INDEX ON :Person(name))

If not, is there any APOC alternative to achieve the same?

Thanks!

Note:

I am using Neo4j 3.5

Answer 1

What exactly are you trying to do?

You can create John and Jane like this (see the docs on UNWIND )

WITH ['John','Jane'] AS names
UNWIND names AS name
CREATE (p:Person {name:name})
RETURN p

But when you create an index, you create an index for a property on all Nodes of that type. So to index "name" you only need (see docs on INDEX ):

CREATE INDEX ON :Person(name)